In this article, I report on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cuba by U.S. religious organizations engaged in humanitarian relief efforts (and thus exempt from the U.S. Embargo). I became aware of the huge "presence" of practically every U.S. religious denomination in Cuba when I visited Havana in 2005 as part of a New York State Bar Association "cultural exchange." Given the immense need for poverty alleviation in Cuba (which I assume is the justification for excluding humanitarian relief efforts from the blanket U.S. Embargo), can the continued U.S. embargo on Cuban trade be deemed to be immoral? There seems to be no doubt that it is illegal in that it violates the WTO Free Trade Agreement (the U.S. being a WTO member state) so that is not my question. (All illegal acts are not immoral, such as my jaywalking on a regular basis.)
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Wow, John; talk about seeing the glass as half full. You rock!
Gwen
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